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Summoning Literary Witches: Intan Paramaditha Rethinks Her Personal Canon

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Written by Intan Paramaditha, and was originally published in Literary Hub. Mar 25, 2024


“In actively reshaping our coven, we reclaim our literary lineage and stitch a tapestry of defiant voices.”

Gloria Anzaldúa, a queer Mexican American author with indigenous heritage, tells us about why she writes: “I write to record what others erase when I speak, to rewrite the stories others have miswritten about me, about you.”

I am not writing alone. I am writing with witches—those who have gone before, those who are brewing, and those who will rise.

Anzaldúa, born in 1942 and died in 2004, is one of those witches. I carry her traces with me as one of my literary influences—or rather, literary witches, whose spells of dissent guide my pen. I summon her to contemplate the importance of rethinking, questioning, and denaturalizing literary influences as a creative practice and a political act.


This essay is based on a Master’s lecture delivered at the Conrad Award Gala, Conrad Festival, October 29, 2023.

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